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Monday, December 16, 2013

Musing Mondays

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…• Describe one of your reading habits.• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! • Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!Since my friend's book tour is happening right now, I will be featuring her book throughout the week. So here is a bit about The Tearings:

From the moment the black vans appear to take the
sick away, Maya knows there is something wrong. A high school sophomore, she
seems to be the only one to question the sudden disappearances at school and
the masks everyone is forced to wear to keep from catching the new disease
spreading through the entire United States. Even when word of the new “healing
centers” reaches the public, no one dares to ask what is happening.

But when Maya catches the disease, the one they call The Tearings, and is taken
to one of these centers along with her mother, the truth becomes all too clear.
She is separated from her family and forced to work, becoming one of the more
fortunate ones who is not sent to the testing wings. Bullied by the guards to
the point of death, she meets David Summers, the enigmatic young Captain who
appears to loathe his position of power in the camp and who seems as drawn to
Maya as she is to him.

When Maya suddenly becomes the disease’s only survivor, she must put her trust
on David to find a way to escape the camp and get the truth, and the cure
coursing through her veins, out to the world.